Improvement in printing-types



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Patente Printin "May 27,1373,`

Printin VNo. 139,365.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

D AVID w. BRUCE, 0E NEw YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRINTING-TYPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,365, dated Ma-y 27,1873; application filed March l?, 1873.

.in Making Printing-Types; and I do hereby declare that the following:is a full, clear, and

` exact description of the construction of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings making a part of this specification.

Figures in printing-types are now cast onehalf of the width of the bodyof the type, and fractions are cast either onehalf the width or the samewidth as the body of the type. These I show in Figure 1 of the ldrawingannexed.

Gompositors justify the blanks in columns of figures and fractions bymeans of en and other quads.

These figures and fractions, when cast in small type, such as nonpareil,agate, and smaller, are very indistinct, and especially so when printedin common newspaper work. To obviate this indistinctness I construct thefigures broader, by casting them two-thirds of the width of the body,whereby they are easily justified by two of the ordinary three-in-emspaces; and I propose to enlarge the face of the fractions by omittingthe line between the cast upon a block equal to two-thirds the width ofthe body of the ein7 or standard type.

2. Fractional figures in` printing-type, constructed without adividing-line, without regard to width of body. Y

DAVID WOLFE BRUCE.`

Witnesses:

H. M. HALL, V. B. MUNsoN.

